Love Arranged (Lakefront Billionaires, #3)

by Lauren Asher

So here I am, a witness to everyone else’s love story after spending so long wishing for mine.

I’ve wished for so many different things in my life because to wish is to hope, and that’s the one thing no one can take away from you.”

“If my actions said anything, it was that I liked you too damn much, Lily. That was my problem. Never you.”

“I wasn’t looking for anything real when I joined the app, but meeting you made me consider it.”

“I can’t get angry at them for something I’ve been guilty of. So let them look. Let them stare. Let them wish they were going home with the most beautiful woman in this bar—in this town—for all I care. I’ve been there. Many times, in fact, when it comes to you. So if anything, I sympathize with them because they can want you, but they’ll never truly have you.”

Because when you find the one person in the world who sees you—who takes the time to collect every broken piece of your spirit and helps you put it back together—you don’t let them go.

you’re right—I am bothered by you talking about a future with another man because I so desperately want that man to be me.”

“I don’t want to lie to myself anymore about what we are. I don’t want to pretend. I want you to be mine, not because of an arrangement but because you choose to be.”

I want to rip out my heart straight from my chest and offer it to her as payment for ruining us.

And slowly, little by little, the future she painted for herself… Well, I couldn’t imagine anyone else standing beside her in that picture but me.”

“I was a fool for thinking I could walk away. I’d rather spend the rest of my life in therapy, working through my personal issues if it means I get to come home to you every day.”